Bishopsgate

Bishopsgate is a ward of the City of London in London, England. It was named for a Roman gate on the London Wall and for a bishop's mitre which was fixed upon a building at the Wormwood Street intersection. The gate itself was rebuilt by the Hansa merchants in 1471 before being finally demolished in 1760. Medieval Bishopsgate often displayed the impaled heads of criminals, and it contained several coaching inns along the Old North Road; many of them survived the Great Fire of London, only to later be demolished. On 24 April 1993, Bishopsgate was the site of an IRA terrorist attack during The Troubles, killing 1 and injuring 40. In 2011, the Bishopsgate ward had a population of 222 people.